O'CONNELL PROSECUTION.—The following is a copy of the Attorney- General's
letter announcing the abandonment of the Goverinnent prose- cution.
" Ennis, 3rd June 1831. The Attorncy.General presents Lis compliments to Mr. O'Connelh and informs
him that it not intended to take any further proceedings in the prosecution de- pending assinst him and others ; the Law Of-Toers being- of opinion, that it is not competent to the Cowl. of KinA's Ilench to pronounce pulp-tent, in consequence of the expiration of the act of l'arliament on )vhich the prosecution was founded."
GALWAY Sl'ECIAL COMMISSION.—The Judges arrived in Galway on Thursday the fair and the commission was opened next day. Sir John Burke was forcinail of the Grand Jury. The first case was that of John Ryan, chareed with extorting fire-arms from John Burke, Esq. a magistrate, on the eeth ultimo. Ryan and his party took away six carbines, a lilundethins, and a pistol; they offered no violence, and said they Only wanted the arms for a month. One of the party, who was dresse.I as a female, and c tiled hersrlf Lady Clare, came into the house, and familiarly conversed with Mrs. Burke. Ryan was foetid guilty. Be was miserably poor. In the opening charge to the Grand Jury, the Judge dwelt particularly on the mildness with which in Ireland the law had been administered ; and contrasted that mildness with the case of the Luddite prosecution hi England, where fourteen individuals were executed. Ile need not have gone so far Isaac fur sanguinary examples. The Attornev•General strongly reprehended the general apathy of the magistracy and gentry, by which so many criminals had been allowed to escape front .justice.
On the I ith, Thomas Kelly was found guilty of attempting to set fire
to a house. When taxed with the crime, he declared that lie owed no grudge to the occupant—the act was directed solely against the pro-
prietor. The house was on common-iglu, which had been enclosed. Perhaps, had we the means of tracing them, we should find not a few of the cases of illegal outraem perpetrated in Ireland, originating in the legal injustice of the British or Irish Parliament. The repeal of a number of the private acts, passed withiu the last fifty years, would be.n0 indifferent reform.
On the seine day, Conner Connane was charged with extorting a gun from John Dimples:Tv:int of Sir John Burke, at Marble Hill. Germane was one of the party that attacked Sir John's house on the 4th of April last. Some of the party threatened violence, but Continue (lid nut. He was identified by Deegan and another ; and was found guilty.
John Kineen was charged with administering an unlawful oath on the 22nd of May, with demanding fire-arms, and going armed during the day at Carpet, the seat of Mr. Conolly. The following paper—a brilliant specimen of religion and grammar—was found on Kineen, be- tween his shirt and skin. " In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,—Youi will be up to all questions that I propose to you concerning this matter. You will bear to be beheaded, quartered, and gibbetted, icier you will prosecute me, or any person or persons under the reente of Gay Fellow. You will at call ally time I will send for for you. You wont waylay or betray a brother. 3. You wont see me shartaken for a mails meat, or night's lodging. 4. If any of your brothers is in imprison lament, you will advance according to you from 6d. to a shilling, to extricate him. 5. You wont be drinking or quarrelsome at leer or market. 6. You wont see me struck without aiding and assisting Me in a just and npright cause. 7. You wont let any one we your sines or tokens, unless your sure if to be a Gay fellow. 8. You wont be Bragging or Boasting of your signs or Tokens. 9.31 399— 63947-18c1 C 4 m p MC." The Galway Commission was expected to finish at the latest on Wed- nesday. That of Ennis has been adjourned to the 23rd. A great many jurors were fined at Galway for non-attendance. Tee CASTLE POLLARD Mennens.—Of the twenty-five policemen com- mitted for the slaughter of the men and women shot at Castle Pollard fair, twenty have been admitted to bail, on the ground that although there was evidence of their having fired at the people, there was no evidence of their shots having proved fatal. The chief constable, Blake, with Sergeant Mills and Meyers, and constables Todd and Hall, remain in custody. Had the police shot ninety instead of nine, provided always that they had fired in volleys, so that the effect of no particular ball could have been determined, they, upon the principle that seems to have governed this judgment, must have all been Inlmitted to bail.
CARROLL.—It is understood that the sentence in the case of this man will not be carried into operation. Mr. O'Connell bed an interview on Saturday with the Lord Lieutenant and Mr. Stanley respecting him.
SERGEANT ROBINSON.—Alurtogh Donelly, one of the party which so basely murdered this brave man, has suffered for the crime, of which he was found g tilty on most satisfactory evidence, before the Clare co n- miusion. Doneby denied his guilt at the place of execution ; where, con- trary to expectation, there were no spectetors, len, a small game or wo- men and children. Twenty persens charged with the same offence are still in gaol at Ennis, untried.
THE Poon op LIMERICK.—" Thousands," says the Limerick Post, "are now ut that state of destitution we would tremble to describe ; but as the wretchedness we know to exist cannot be concealed much longer, it would be criminal not to call upon our wealthy fellow-citizens to guard against a continuance of those feelings of despair a starving and only half-employed population are now suffering wider." The Globe, in quieting the above, adds that the Earl of Limerick has an estate worth 20,0001. a year in the neighbourhood, and does not contribute 20d. to the support of these poor people. We hope this is not correct. If it be, we should not be surprised at a strike among his reapers when the day of harvest arrives.
CLARE.—The Dublin Evening Pot expresses a confident hope, that, for eight or nine months at least, the disturbances in this countypay be looked on as at an end. In the mean time, our contemporary remarks, it behoves Government to make a radical inquiry into the causes of these troubles, with a view to a radical remedy—that remedy, the Post says, is a legal provision for the pour.
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